BRIARCRIER
August 8,
2014, at The Briar's Restaurant, of Briarcliff Manor Rotary
Club Meeting.
TODAY
IN HISTORY
1974:
President Richard Nixon announces his resignation in view of new
revelations of Watergate scandal.
MEETING
LEADER: President Eric Lebenson
PLEDGE: Dr.
Bob Maher Song: Sy Yuter
Prayer: Rev. Todd Young
ROTARIANS
PRESENT AND HAPPY THOUGHTS: 18 Rotarians present. Eric, his
children performed marvelously; Kris, his daughter Rachel in Fiddler
and believes in hug therapy; Plus other happy thoughts not
completely recorded.
GUESTS: Janel
Di Benedetto of international Rotary; Amir Sadi, president-elect of
Bronx Rotary; George Camp of Ossining Rotary.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Happy
Thoughts and Raffle club money goes to international Rotary; Treasury
in good condition.
SPEAKERS
AND SUBJECT: Todd Young, Alumni coordinator for Hudson Link, on
how college education provides for few maximum security prisoner
returns.
SUMMARY OF
TALK
The
speaker spent from age 23 to age 48 in Sing Sing prison. His
organization, Hudson Link, assists graduates in five maximum security
prisons as they transition back into society. His organization
provides for pre-employment resources which includes resume writing
and interview skills, job search especially internships. His
organiazation partners with various MA granting universities
including Mercy, Nyack, Siena. SUNY-Sullivan and Vassar. It assists
students in preparation for college level study. It offers
preparatory classes in math, English and essay writing. His
organization was formed in 1998 and is entirely privately funded so
continues to require contributions. His organization's
re-incarceration rate is about one percent compared with national
rate of about 43%.
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This
Friday (tomorrow) at the Briar's Restaurant, hopefully, Cap't D. C.
Anderson on Climate Change.
Elinor
Yuter, Reporter
Rachel
Leihbacher, Expediter
